ROG MAXIMUS Z690 HERO

e-zone Choice

Equipped with high-quality inductors and solid capacitors to provide efficient and stable power supply for multi-core processors

2022 Red Dot Product Design

ROG MAXIMUS Z690 HERO won the 2022 Red Dot Product Design Award, a world-renowned design award.

Recommendation

The ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero comes with pretty much all the features a gamer or OC enthusiast could want.

Silver Award

In terms of design, we can feel that ASUS wanted to try something different. Indeed, we can find here a more "New Retro Wave" type of design...

Performance Award

In the end, this ROG Maximus Z690 Hero is a strong and reliable base to build a super powerful Gaming PC compatible with all the latest technologies.

Editor's Choice

It's the first board we'll pull off the stack and the last board of a generation we'll pack, so inherently a genuine editor's choice.

Recommended

This board has everything you could ever want in a high-end-class component, thanks to its strong VRMs and cutting-edge features.

It's everything your heart could desire

...the ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero is a beast of a Z690 motherboard.

Tech Critter Gold

The ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero is among the Z690 chipset motherboards announced by ASUS for the latest 12th Gen Intel Core processors, with support for the latest PCIe 5.0 standard and DDR5 memory modules. This time, we’ll be taking a closer look at what kind of features and performance you can expect from this motherboard.

Pokdeward Silver

It is quite surprising that Intel decided to unveil the 12th Gen Intel Core processors so soon, considering that they just announced the 11th Gen Intel Core lineup earlier this year. But while the short gap between the 11th Gen and 12th Gen might make you think that it is a mere refresh, the reality is that it is everything but that. Let’s go over the architecture briefly, before we get to the actual review.—

TechPorn Editor's Choice Award

There are cheaper motherboards but none comes close to what the ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero could offer. Make sure you have the means to use every bit of its feature for a sound investment.

HungryGeeks Approved

Priced at PhP 34,700 in the Philippines, the ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero is a beefy motherboard as expected from the brand. It has a tons of expansion ports, PCIe 5.0 connectivity, and robust VRMs, a solid cooling. DDR5 is native to the Z690 platform but ASUS is able to accommodate faster kits up to 6400MHz.

9.4/10 Overall Rating

The ROG MAXIMUS Z690 HERO's well-rounded feature set and excellent build quality make it the go-to starter board if you want a foundation that matches the asking price of the Core i7-12700K or Core i9-12900K.

Platinum

This Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Hero will be one of the reference boards for the high-end in its Z690 Alder Lake platform, with intelligent solutions for the future

HKEPC Editor's Choice

The PCIe Slot Q-Release button design allows users to easily remove the graphics card.

2022 in the first half of Best Awards, more hardware.

The ROG MAXIMUS Z690 HERO is an ATX (30.5x24.4cm) motherboard with the Intel Z690 chipset. The Intel Z690 chipset is the highest chipset capable of memory overclocking as well as CPU overclocking. The power supply is powerful at 20+1 pages and has three PCIe slots, five M.2 slots, six SATA 3 slots, and a rear terminal, DP, HDMI, USB 3.1, USB 2.0, Thunderbolt 4. Memory supports DDR5 and can be configured up to 128GB on a 6400 MHz overclock.

2022 Best Gaming Brands

The ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 HERO is an ATX (30.5x24.4cm) motherboard with the Intel Z690 chipset. The Intel Z690 chipset is a top-level chipset that can be used for memory overclocking as well as CPU overclocking. The power supply is powerful at 20+1 pages and has 3 PCIe slots, 5 M.2 slots, 6 SATA 3 slots, DP, HDMI, USB 3.1, USB 2.0, Thunderbolt 4, and so on as rear terminals. 

Editor's Choice

ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 HERO Review : Worth All-Around

80/100

ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero, motherboard premium dengan fitur melimpah

9

Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Hero, Makin Mumpuni dan Tampil Menarik

Editor's Choice

ASUS has made two nice innovations here, including screwless, flip M.2 mounting and a GPU latch release button that you can press when you can't reach the lock to remove the graphics card.

Editor's Choice

Especially the colored screens called "Polymo Lighting" on the mosfet and chipset coolers reveal a really stylish image.

High Performance

The most beautiful plus in terms of design is the Polymo Lighting screen used in the new series. This screen, where mini patterns are created with various colors, highlights the design on its own.

Innovative Design

I think there is a wonderful thing called Q Release on the motherboard, when you press it, it unlocks the first PCI Express slot.

Editor's Choice

For the most powerful processors, for which this class of boards is, the Maximus Z690 Hero is one of the technically best options.

Thumb Up

Maximum performance, extreme overclocking capabilities and a host of advanced features - that's the Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Hero motherboard in a nutshell. It is a motherboard designed for the most demanding enthusiasts and overclockers.

Overclocker's Heaven

The board as such has great equipment in terms of ports and especially various features for clockers, there are really a lot of options in the BIOS, while pleasing the little things like the button to release the primary PCIe card. I primarily look at this board as a special hi-end for clockers, I probably wouldn't buy it for my home PC, but it's great for some record-breaking and OC games.

DD´s Recommended

At the moment, except for the LAN and the price, the new ROG MAXIMUS Z690 HERO board has met expectations in every way, especially the new details for us testers are handy and ASUS obviously knows its users and customers. So if you want a proper but not yet extreme board, but with everything for your games (with processors and DDR5), and money or efficiency and consumption do not matter for you, this is an excellent choice.

Top-notch

For the most powerful processors, for which this class of boards is, the Maximus Z690 Hero is one of the technically best options.

Bug recommended

The Maximus Hero model in the ROG offer of boards based on the Z690 chipset takes a place below the white armored Formula and the overclocker-minded Maximus Extreme model.

Recommended

The ROG Maximus Z690 Hero is a premium-class mainboard that won’t disappoint you.

Silver award

Great board for the money invested.